Ithycythara

Ithycythara is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.

Ithycythara

G.W. Tryon · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MangeliidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 34 of 84 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 30 of 84 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 20 of 84 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

84 occurrences of Ithycythara on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

84 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

28 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.56°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WTuira — 8.21°N, 77.57°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WSwan Cay — 9.45°N, 82.30°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WTentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°ENancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°W

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The named rock units Ithycythara has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ithycythara and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ithycythara and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,439 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Ithycythara, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

24 references

Each of the 84 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 12 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ithycythara

Credit
G.W. Tryon
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ithycythara was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodring 1928